How to Prepare Delicious Sourdough Bread

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This bread tastes almost exactly like the bread we buy back home in Bavaria, Germany. Autolyse: In a large mixing bowl, stir together flours and water with your hands until well combined. For this sourdough bread recipe I used a homemade no-yeast sourdough starter and followed Chef John's Sourdough Bread recipe. You can have Sourdough Bread using 6 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sourdough Bread

1. It's 375 g of bread flour.
2. You need 125 g of whole wheat flour.
3. Prepare 400 g of g water.
4. You need 100 g of starter.
5. You need 10 g of salt.
6. You need of vegetable oil.

A sourdough starter is a simple combination of flour and water, miraculously (well, with a bit of chemistry) turned into a live culture with naturally occurring yeasts and bacteria (the good kind) present in your kitchen. Sourdough Bread This no-knead bread is no fuss to make and delicious, too, which I first learned when I was the cook at a remote fishing camp. It has a crisp crust and distinctive sourdough flavor from the "starter" yeast mixture you stir up in advance. Spray the loaves with lukewarm water and dust generously with flour.

Sourdough Bread instructions

1. To check if starter is ready to be used, add a small piece of starter to a bowl of water. If it floats, the starter is active. This test is not always accurate..
2. Mix flours together with 375 ml of water, let rest 30 minutes - 2 hours for autolyse..
3. Add starter to dough and pinch into dough with hands..
4. Add 10g of salt and the remaining 25 ml of water, the dough should be a little easier to mix and very watery..
5. With force, slap dough onto un-floured surface and fold together 5 minutes until some strength develops and the dough can hold its form..
6. Lightly oil bowl or proofing box and add dough..
7. Proof dough in proofing oven set to 85 F or at room temperature..
8. With oiled hands, pick up dough at middle and fold onto itself, then rotate dough 90 degrees and fold again. Repeat every 30 minutes for 3-4 hours, total of 6-8 times..
9. Prepare a generously floured towel placed in shaping basket or bowl to hold the dough overnight..
10. Place dough on an un-floured surface and carefully form dough into a round shape. Lightly flour and let relax 10 minutes covered with a towel..
11. Rollover onto floured surface with un-floured bottom facing up, pull sides out and fold together like an envelope..
12. Stitch bottom together to hold and let rest seam-side down on counter to seal. Move into basket, seam-side up, and cover with flour, refrigerate overnight covered in towel..
13. Flour parchment paper, preheat dutch oven on middle rack of oven set to 500F..
14. Gently roll out dough onto parchment paper and score top of dough ball with a razor blade..
15. Transfer dough with parchment paper into hot Dutch oven. Bake for 15 minutes with the lid on and 30 minutes off, cook times vary..
16. Knock bottom of bread to hear hollow sound if bread is fully cooked..

Make two fairly deep diagonal slashes in each; a serrated bread knife, wielded firmly, works well here. Remove it from the oven, and cool on a rack. Do not store it in the refrigerator. Instead, keep it covered with a towel or in a zipped plastic bag someplace that is relatively cool. A bread box also works well.

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